How To Prune All Hydrangea Varieties // Pruning Hydrangeas // Northlawn Flower Farm

How to prune all types of hydrangeas. Start by identifying what variety of hydrangea you will be pruning. Panicle and smooth hydrangeas can be pruned down by a third, while big leaf, mountain, and oakleaf hydrangeas should just be dead headed.

Panicle and Smooth hydrangeas bloom on new wood so it's safe to prune them. However, big leaf, mountain, and oakleaf hydrangeas bloom on old wood so pruning them in spring would mean you are cutting off all the blooms.

The best time to prune is in late winter/early spring when the buds begin to swell. Cut just above a node removing about 1/3 of the plant. You can also remove any dead, damaged, diseased, or crossing branches at this time.

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